Op-Eds

Ehud Olmert met with Mahmoud Abbas - and said, unbelievably, that the PA leader fights terrorism. In that case, let him start by ending pay-for-slay.

The consistent and enduring Palestinian rejection of any and all peace initiatives with Israel, most recently the “Deal of the Century,” calls into question the commitment of the Palestinian leadership not only to peace but to the very welfare and safety of the Palestinian people.

Michael Weinstock is running for congress in Long Island and is lined up against some very anti-Israel candidates. He wrote this oped which speaks for itself.

J Street opposed moving the U.S. Embassy to Israel’s and the Jewish people’s eternal capital Jerusalem.

Diving into the Abbas: Pals with fewer pals.

Deported Palestinian terrorist killer Rasmea Odeh is still celebrated on U.S. campuses, with particular viciousness at UC-Berkeley.

Facing the uncertainty of upcoming elections in both Israel and the U.S., what should Jerusalem do? Any move has to be based on a general understanding of how to fight anti-Semitism.

How far can Abbas go in opposing negotiation and compromise, encouraging violence, venerating terrorists, spewing hatred, and pushing the criminalization of Israel – while still being considered a paragon of peace by the Israeli Left (ref. Ehud Olmert), the American Jewish Left (ref. Jeremy Ben-Ami), and the global community?

Throughout Middle Eastern countries where Jews were once prosperous, numerous Jewish sites are getting a makeover and Jewish history is being remembered.

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Christians are safe. Yet some churches dump on the Jewish state, not only assisting the mortal threat it faces from Palestinian Muslims, but ignoring the threat those people pose to the church itself.

In 2018, the Trump administration, through the work of Kenneth L. Marcus, reopened the old 2011 case against Rutgers University that the Obama administration had buried. Hatem Bazian, the godfather of campus anti-Semitism, had brought his Never Again for Anyone tour to Rutgers. And when Jewish students and Holocaust survivors came to see what it was about, the "free event" began allowing Muslims and anti-Israel activists in keffiyahs to enter for free while charging Jewish attendees fees.

The Deal Of The Century Plan creates a crisis of conscience for the American Jewish right. Which shall it be—principles or expedience? Consistency or hypocrisy?

The fact the overwhelming majority of the companies are Israeli indicates that there is a more sinister aim at work here.

Israeli law will be applied in our communities in Judea and Samaria once the mapping process is completed • A Palestinian state that supports terror will not be established; instead, it will be a demilitarized democratic entity • The Mideast peace plan will enhance our security and our future.

Learn your rabbi’s strengths and figure out how to delegate the rest

Sad Satire Sanders

We should remind Netanyahu and Gantz that with Trump soon facing his own election, there may be only a small window of opportunity to transform this plan into reality.

The thesis that peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will “stabilize” the Middle East is without foundation--regardless of who says it or how many times it is repeated.

President Trump’s peace plan must be understood as a systemic impetus toward a new breakthrough rather than as a practical blueprint for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I asked Tlaib, “What about your anti-Semitism? What about your blood libel?” Several policemen surrounded me a moment later and led me out of the room. Rashida provided no answer and showed no remorse over her raging anti-Semitism.

The necessity of a Jewish nation state was a foundational premise for the founding fathers of Zionism, no matter what their political persuasion. That understanding was once shared by most American Jews, particularly in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Today, however, the idea of Jewish statehood is no longer a unifying principle but a wedge issue for American Jews.

Smart Israelis know that former PM Ehud Olmert and PA leader Abbas' gambit won't leave its mark or history, as neither has a place in Israel's future

If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to apply Israeli sovereignty to the Judea and Samaria communities before the election, not only will he almost certainly lose the elections, his defeat will bury Trump’s peace plan and harm Trump’s re-election chances.

While opponents of Trump’s peace plan have accused Israel’s premier of making a diplomatic blunder with the U.S. and failing to deliver on annexation, the two administrations have never been closer and delaying annexation until after Israel’s elections may actually play to Netanyahu’s advantage.

"Other stateless people can only dream of being offered independence and $50bn by the US president.... If only the Yazidis or Baluchis or Kurds or Rohingya Muslims were so lucky." – Tom Gross, January 29, 2020.

I look at Yeshiva Hillel and his friends, in their civilian clothing and put them side by side with Soldier Hillel and his friends, in their army clothing and the two images look like different species. One rough, big, strong fierce and brave. Larger than life. The other normal, smaller not in statute but mere size, kind, benevolent and sweet.

Most of the talk about the ravages of last month’s floods in Israel’s coastal cities concerns the responsibility of state authorities that failed to invest sufficiently in infrastructure development. But that is only part of the story. The main problem, which is repressed to the point of denial, stems from a planning failure at the macro level. This is not just a matter of flawed local planning for local drainage systems. This is a greater conceptual failure that results from ignoring the basic geographic conditions of the Land of Israel.

Even a cursory perusal of the official platforms of the alliance reflects a stark rejection of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.

How can you make a country out of patches of lands connected by bridges and tunnels, one of which is 20 miles long?

Antisemitism has fragmented into many subcategories in the postmodern era, which has made it ever more confusing and opaque. One concept that can shed new light on contemporary antisemitism is confirmation bias: the idea that people are often receptive to information, even if dubious, that confirms their existing opinions.